The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Sami Steigmann's Oral History

Sami Steigmann, child survivor of the Holocaust and motivational speaker, was interviewed by Nina Pick on February 3rd, 2019 in Harlem, NY.

This interview was conducted in English.

Sami Steigmann was born in Czernowitz (Bukovina) in 1939.